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“I’m glad he’s home where he belongs,” Stefannie Thompson said. “He’s acting as if he’s OK. I’m just glad (White) is behind bars. I’m glad this ordeal is all over with.”

Oklahoma City police said the incident started early Sunday morning.

Stefannie Thompson she left her son Quinton at home with her mother while she went out with friends. When she returned her son was nowhere to be found.

White allegedly knocked on the door of the Southeast 10th Street home, and the little boy answered it. White said the child was left home alone and that’s why he took the him, according to court documents.

Quinton’s mother said she doesn’t buy the explanation.

“If that was the case, why didn’t he call the police? Why didn’t he walk through the house and see if there was anyone else there? He just walked in the front of the house, took his tablet and got him dressed,” Stefannie Thompson said.

White told investigators he took Quinton to a friend's apartment in Del City near Southeast 29th Street and Vickie Drive, police said.

He kept the child for six hours before dropping him off at a nearby convenience store, officials said.

Pictures taken from a store surveillance camera led to an anonymous tip and White’s arrest.

White was convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison for kidnapping and beating an ex-girlfriend in 2008.

Police said White and Thompson did not know each other. He remains locked up in the Oklahoma County Jail and is awaiting formal charges.